Mayweather vs Ortiz Early Results From Las Vegas
By Rick Reeno
MORE LIVE RESULTS TO COME..............
MGM Grand, Las Vegas - In a battle of newcoming junior lightweights, Kyrone Butler (1-0) won a four round decision over Cassius Clay (0-1), who had Roger Mayweather working his corner.
Welterweight contender Carson Jones (32-8-2, 22KOs) stopped Said Ouali (28-4, 20KOs) after seven rounds of action.
Jones dropped Ouali with a combination in the final minute of the fourth and then followed up with a few good punches to close the round. Ouali, cut around his right eye, had his moments in the fifth round. Jones gave Ouali a beating in the sixth, ripping him to the body and landing hard uppercuts up the middle. Ouali's face was wreck from the punishment. There was swelling under his left eye and the right eye was nearly shut. After three more rounds of action, and Ouali atking more punishment, the referee stopped the fight before the start of the eight.
Canadian super middleweight Adonis Stevenson (15-1, 12KOs) stopped Dion Savage (10-2, 6KOs) in the first round. Around the middle of the first, Stevenson landed a big uppercut that sent Savage down. Once he beat the count, Stevenson trapped him in the corner and let his hands go with combinations to the head. Referee Tony Weeks stepped in to wave it off. Time of the stoppage was 1:57.
British lightweight contender Anthony Crolla (22-2, 9KOs) of Manchester, England won an eight round split decision over Juan Manuel Montiel (6-5-3, 1KOs). Montiel was game until he suffered a bad cut above his right eye in the fifth round. Veteran training legend Nacho Beristain was working the corner of Montiel. The scores were 77-75 Crolla, a criminal score of 77-75 for Montiel and 78-74 for Crolla.
In a super middleweight bout, prospect Marco Antonio Periban (15-0, 10KOs) won an eight round unanimous decision over veteran Dhafir Smith (24-22-7, 4KOs). Periban is trained by Danny Garcia. The scores were 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73.